I'm glad you figured out the cause of the problem. How did you add the diptube? I have been toying with the idea of adding a filter screen at the pump inlet port to prevent hop and grain matter from entering the wort chiller. But so far I cant figure out how to make this work.
Did you ever get this issue resolved?
Was the grain bucket in the raised or lowered position when the element burned out?
What did the element look like when it burned out?
Do you use a fine grind on your grain? Do you end up with a lot of solids in the boil tank?
I have brewed a couple...
How did it turn out?
I brewed this on 3/30/19. It will be my first attempt at a sour and my tenth batch overall. I mashed at 156 f and my gravity was a little low at 1.049 but I did not factor in the extra gallon of wastage from trub and plumbing. This is was the second batch on my unibrau...